To:HIS SISTER MARIA

Written:Written between April 19 and 23, 1908 
 Sent from Geneva to St. PetersburgPublished:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Printed from 
 the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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DearManyasha,

Ihope that by now you will be able to read this yourself
and are almost well again. Your illness has dragged on a
disgustingly long time! The main thing, however, is not
to have a relapse. The most dangerous thing after that
disease is fatigue or nervous excitement. Now would be the time
to send you to
Stjernsund![1]When you havecompletelyrecovered, drop me a line. I am going to
Italy[2]for a week
or so. I shall write when I get back.

Loveand kisses and get well soon.

Yours,V. Ulyanov

[1]SeeLetters Nos. 155 and 156.—Ed.

[2]Themanuscript of this “separate sheet” has been lost. The footnote
concerned Erich Becher’sPhilosophische Voraussetzungen der
exakten Naturwissenschaften. Lpz., 1907, which, as Lenin said
in the note, he read only after he had finished writing the book
(seeCollected Works, Vol. 14, p. 290).